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Peter Galbavy

Wow. Now who reads like an elistist prick ?

Peter Galbavy

SurgicalSteel wrote:
Peter Galbavy wrote:I prefer calling them ignorant peasants.
SexyTalon wrote:Sure. And then you come across as an elitist prick.
Yea, there's really no reason to bring economic-labor classes into it at all.

I was actually, somewhat tongue in cheek, referring to my own relatives - see previous posting. But looks like folks here are to sensitive in a PC-way to get it ...

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gmalivuk wrote:No worries is only Aussie slang when you say it in a bad accent and follow it with "mate".

... and the questioning intonation at the end... ? Or anywhere ... ? mate ... ?

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I think that's entire forum, self selecting, in general

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People.are.idiots. I like the thing I once read that sanity is defined by being able to take on new concepts and change your viewpoint based on new data as you go through life. By this definition, and I use that term loosely, most people in the world are proabably insane. I prefer calling them igno...

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1. Indians eat a fuckload of spice. Um, no. It actually depends on what kind of cuisine you're eating. Yes, there is more than one. People say this because they equate "Indian food" to what we call "Punjabi food" or other delicacies that are from the North of India. South Indian...

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A bit obscure but as I am a great fan, The Hunting of the Snark has the following stanza in the first fit: http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/index.html Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each man on ...

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I remember reading a book when I was young called The Laws Of Form where the author showed - or claimed to show - a proof for the four colour theorm using his odd notation. Anyone else seen this ? I was young and didn't understand and the book had slight overtones of metaphysics and what-not so I di...

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Lighting. It makes a big difference to the feel of a room and can be very cheap to play with. If money is a constraint, get some cheap desk lamps (IKEA etc.) as up-lighters/spots, point them at strategic things, play with light and dark regions and shadows. If you have good daylight through windows,...

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I work as a "technologist" in a bank. I get paid once a month, on the 15th (hooray!) which is two weeks in arrears and two weeks in advance - cute idea, first place I have had this. It's by bank transfer. In the UK you only get "free banking" with most retail banks if you have yo...

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The point of my question is to find out WHY people hate America(ns), not to discuss whether those reasons are valid. It may or may not be an "alleged conspiracy," but that is not the issue. Dislike is based on perception, not necessarily fact. I was trying hard not to comment on this thre...

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lunchtime.samurai wrote:Yes, but this is Conservapedia-style sex. I leave the details to your imagination.

I thought that was the point, no imagination either required or allowed...

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I liked the book, thought about the Long Now project (does he mention it in an authors foreword ?) and then later found out about his submitted designs - see 2/3rd the way down the page: http://longnow.org/clock/other-ideas/

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Personally I would introduce the tables using their CREATE TABLE ( ... ) structures. Also I would suggest some basic prodding to test knowledge of GROUP BY and HAVING, at least.

Peter Galbavy

I'll repeat my earlier (non flippant) point. I don't believe that it's not about racial equality, it's about equality of opportunity . If a dating site refuses you because you are of a specific race that is wrong. If other members of a dating site don't find you attractive that is not wrong. You hav...

Peter Galbavy

Yes and no. There is otehr stuff happening too when a shell decides to parse your command. There are different ways shells handle multiple file descriptors and process backgrounding, signals masks, umasks etc. This influences fork/exec semantics etc.

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What I meant was that you need both. You need real training - whether one-to-one in a studio enviroment, master to apprentice, or on an organised course - *and* experience. You cannot walk into a studio with just domestic hifi knowledge and google and hope to get anywhere without making serious mist...

Peter Galbavy

There's always that old favorite "Free Beer".

Peter Galbavy

A friend spent two years on a Music Production course which included a segment on working in a studio. It isn't simple and while on-the-job training is possible it can be both dangerous to equipment (as mentioned) and also dangerous to the artists whose work you may record and mix poorly. Lots of re...

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I have a few top level folders: Artists, Compilations, Classical, Multichannel and Misc. Under Artists and Multichannel I have directories per artist with Surname, Firstname where the artists is a person and not a group. Compilations are the album names as directories. Classical I am *still* confuse...

Peter Galbavy

I know he's been mentioned but any cover of a Bob Dylan song is better than the man himself performing it. A great songsmith, lyricist, whatever but can't stand his recordings.

Any cover. By anyone. Including you. Yes, you!

Peter Galbavy

It's far far simpler then that. Some (IMHO mislabelled) "feminists" are actually just mysoginists in reverse (what's the right word here?). The thought that a man is getting any form of gratification or pleasure from a woman for whatever reason is what enrages them. I know a number of, wha...

Peter Galbavy

Niiiice.

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Only one where I have had the magic blue smoke leak was from a Sparc clone (actually Sparc 2 clone, first one in the UK at the time) back in the old days which was shipped over from the US with a multi-voltage PSU. Problem was we didn't check the PSU switch as all the real production machines were f...

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I have no direct answer for you but it is very important to note that it's not "UNIX" doing the piping and process formation but your chosen shell. You may get different behaviours under different shells.

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I love regexps but I would never call any of them beautiful. A bit like being realistic about your own children

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What is this ? The itteh bitteh kitteh linguistics commiteh ?

Peter Galbavy

Problem with that is that the others - the suspects - are either blurred out and hence useless for any sort of ID purposes or that the authority / company refuses the request that there are others in the footage, not just yourself.

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One of the problems is who has a right to view and use the recordedcfootage - but in this example the opposite of privacy. There have been a number of reported cases where people have been either physically attacked or otherwise had criminal activity (pickpocketing etc.) going on around them. The po...

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According to this post on The Reg http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/counterfeit_intel_cpus/ --- For its part, Newegg said it was conducting its own investigation into the questionable Intel CPUs. "Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly...

Peter Galbavy

I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

Peter Galbavy

Java can be a sweet little prototyping language but my problem is the baggage that it is expected to carry around with it. Most places I have worked where they develop real apps you have to use an IDE like Eclipse, you have to pull in multi-MB jar files to do basic stuff like parsing text or XML, ev...

Peter Galbavy

"Borrowed" from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes?qt0386866: Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at th...

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A few years ago we had some loony left agenda thrill seekers try to remove the word "fail" and replace it with "deferred success" in schools. No, seriously.

Like mentioned above, eveything in moderation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/education/4697461.stm

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And this then raises other issues, which brings us back to racism and mate preferences (to get back on topic). If Will Smith is the lead character in a movie and he is in a relationship with a lead female character, then the studios think very carefully about who to cast as the lead female characte...

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I really loathe the BMI system since muscle is so much denser than fat. My BMI has gone up steadily as I've gotten in better shape, and I still want to lose a little fat and gain a little muscle. Ditto. It gets worse when in the UK medical professionals insist on using it to judge your treatment in...

Peter Galbavy

Audiophiles - and I do not consider myself one, although I have some nice medium expensive kit - are generally easy prey. There is a pursuit for some sort of perfection that can never be satisfied and so when someone come along with a new product it is very hard to disregard it as simple snake oil. ...

Peter Galbavy

Mine are a lot of things already mentioned; Photography (and because it's a real passion I can afford the right toys :) ), cycling, music (listening - can't play for toffee), films (but im my own environment) and BOOKS! Actually, looking back on that reading is probably my single favorites , but com...

Peter Galbavy

OK, but is there a grey area ? Where does the line between personal preference and discrimination go ? In films and theatre it seems reasonable that you only cast an actor who matches the sex, race, age etc. description of the character and that you should protected against charges of discrimination...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6230BL20100304?type=marketsNews "BERLIN, March 4 (Reuters) - Greece should consider selling some of its islands as one option to reduce debt, two members of the German parliament in Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition said." The article d...

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